Walk the Dog, Willie
Play Description
A strangely eccentric family awaits the return of the long gone but not easily forgotten Willie. When he finally returns, he disappoints no one with his bizarre brand of confrontational politics. The ending is both violent and ritualistic. A Midwestern gothic.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
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Press Quotes
“Robert Auletta’s script is a family drama with a difference … it has a frayed-edge poetry and wild-animal energy that turn its story, about a veterinary student and his feral foster brother, into an event that’s half ritual and half nervous breakdown …” —Michael Feingold, The Village Voice
“The first production of Robert Auletta’s WALK THE DOG WILLIE was in 1976 at the Yale Repertory Theater. Sam Shepard’s BURIED CHILD was written in 1978 or ’79. I’m not suggesting that because of the evident similarity of the two plays Shepard must have borrowed from Auletta or been influenced by him … No, something more interesting is at work here: a cultural confluence, an affinity of consciousness, a resemblance of attitudes, most specifically a shared sense of the heartland American family as rooted in strains of madness and violence, simultaneously sustained and corrupted by myths and bound by a love that more than touches on despair …” —from Richard Gilman’s introduction
Book Information
Publisher | BPPI |
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Publication Date | 9/30/1985 |
Pages | 86 |
ISBN | 9780881450323 |
Special Notes
If original stage producers credits appear in bold below, all licensees are required to include them in the following form on the title page in all programs distributed in connection with performances of the Play and in all advertising in which the full cast appears in size of type not less than ten percent (10%) of the size of the title of the Play:
First produced by Yale Repertory Theater
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